According to your log output your system has the AC97 on an Intel 810 chipset. Have you looked at this page:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ and taken a look at the Analog Devices lines? To the right is a button to some specific information on either the Intel or Via chipsets followed by generic installation docs. Keep working at it. You'll figure it out eventually! - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | "We have awakened a Internet | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | sleeping giant and Location | Bremen, Kansas USA EM19ov | have instilled in him Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | a terrible resolve". http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | - Admiral Yamomoto